Inscription

lower left: V Dubreuil; lower center, painted over: 1898

Provenance

Lawrence A. and Barbara G. Fleischman, Detroit; purchased 1966 by (Kennedy Galleries, New York);[1] purchased 4 June 1980 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Mr. Fleischman became an owner of Kennedy Galleries at this time, and much of his personal collection was sold to the gallery; see Milton Esterow, "A Top Art Buyer Turns to Selling at Gallery Here," The New York Times (21 June 1966): 39, and e-mail of 14 October 2004 from Lillian Brenwasser of Kennedy Galleries to Emily Shapiro of the Corcoran, in NGA curatorial files.

Exhibition History

1970

The Reality of Appearance: The Trompe L'Oeil Tradition in American Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; University Art Museum, Berkeley; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Detroit Institute of the Arts, 1970, no. 96, repro., as The Safe.